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Mendelssohn on music: The Pocket University 11 September 2023
A composer waxes philosophic on popularity, childhood, and what makes music music.
How does love live on? The Pocket University 12 September 2023
Sept. 11 brought Mendelssohn's thoughts on music. Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley shares metaphors for love.
A dream finally un-deferred: 9 September 2023
Many writers make their living in newspapers, magazines, websites, Substacks and social media platforms. And they often serve editors and their…
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Why do anything? The Pocket University 18 May 2023
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Shelley's shocking drowning: 8 July 2023
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God and man: 1 May 2022
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MISSING IN ACTION: 29-30 July 2022
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Why fear confusion? The Pocket University 9 September 2023
You're watching a movie. You don't understand what you're seeing. You're reading a novel. You're lost. You've reading a poem. You don't get the…
Is someone plagiarizing? The Pocket University 7 September 2023
Hmmm. The entries for September 7 coincidentally cross over from two popular daily readers from the early 20th century. What gives, editors?
We're all in a rush: 7 September 2023
A sampling of poems, and I'm in a rush. But it works, because the first poem is about a knight in a rush!
We don't understand allegory: 31 August 2023
Oh, I remember this Pilgrim's Progress, and we do it, rarely ... it's fallen out of favor. Every character must be like us, meat and bone, harm and…
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A dull lightning of love ... to me: The Pocket University 28 August 2023
Look, I confess: love letters and poems often aren't for me. A good Shakespeare-level sonnet, sure ... or the letters of Heloise and Abelard. But the…
A poet, and he did know it? 29 August 2023
His son became a Supreme Court justice. Here, we hear from a fan, read a short poem, and enjoy some clever observations. It's ... Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oh no! Gibbon is mad at him! The Pocket University 20 August 2023
Remember Edward Gibbon from yesterday? Well, this English writer lavished praise on him, then got on his bad side. See it all unfold in just three…
Look at the Gibbon! The Pocket University 18-19 August 2023
He is most famous for writing a book that is referenced again and again in popular culture about one of the most famous empires in Western Civ that grew…
Do you miss your youth like this? 17 August 2023
Sea stories were wildly popular, both fantasies and fables, as well as more grounded, darker tales like this one. Marvelous, this one from Joseph Conrad…
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